<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coinbase customers <a href="https://blog.coinbase.com/compound-comp-is-now-available-on-coinbase-earn-74cb88acbf78">can now</a> earn COMP — Compound's governance token — by "watching lessons and completing quizzes" about the money market protocol on the exchange's educational platform, Coinbase Earn.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/57044/defi-compound-governance-token-decentralization-lending-protocol"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announced in February</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the ERC20 token gives holders the power to participate in debates and decision-making regarding changes to the Compound protocol. The token </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/68369/compound-governance-tokens-begin-its-first-day-of-trading"><span style="font-weight: 400;">began trading</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Uniswap on June 15. A few days later, Coinbase announced that it would </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/68808/coinbase-to-list-compounds-governance-token"><span style="font-weight: 400;">list the token</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the days after COMP began trading began its price soared from around $18.50 to nearly $360 on June 21. On June 20, </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/69077/compound-overtakes-makerdao-in-value-locked"><span style="font-weight: 400;">COMP surpassed MakerDAO in terms of total locked value</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since June 21, however, fallen back to around $230 at press time.</span></p> <p>Coinbase is an investor in Compound and owns COMP tokens, as previously reported.</p>